Please Welcome

Our fall 2009 Visitors:

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Visiting Professors:

Peter Hallman

Peter Hallman specializes in the syntax-semantics interface. His recent research primarily concerns the relationship beertween predicate aspect, quantifier scope and Case, interactions which are especially salient in ergative languages. This research involves ongoing field work on Inuktitut and Finnish. Other interests include Semitic languages, especially Arabic, and pragmatics, especially presupposition projection out of 'beliefs'. This year Peter is teaching 200B, 120B, 20 and a graduate seminar on quantifier scope.

Visiting Scholars:

Vincie Ho

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Sunhee Kim

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Yan Liu

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Marcello Modesto

Marcello Modesto is assistant professor at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He earned his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2000; his dissertation discussed null referencial subjects in finite clauses in Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese and he has worked on other partial pro-drop languages since then. His research interests focus on parametrical variation, computational linguistics (with an emphasis on machine translation) and the evolution of language. His current work focuses on the theory of control and the lexicon. His research stay at the Department of Linguistics will last until the end of June 2010

Ho-hsein Pan

Ho-hsien Pan is a professor at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. She earned her PhD from the Ohio State University in 1994. She has worked on (1) Taiwan Min prosodic structures, (2) tonal perception and tonal coarticulation, (3) airflow study of Taiwan Min voiced stops, nasals and final unreleased stops. Her current research interests are on voice quality of Taiwan Min check tones, and Taiwan Min second occurrence focus. She will stay in Phonetics Lab until the end of July 2010.

Shin-ae So

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Visiting Students:

Jose Maria Lahoz Bengoechea

José María Lahoz earned his MA in Linguistics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), where he is currently a PhD candidate, with his project on Phonetics and Phonology of Consonant-Strengthening Processes. His study aims at the correlation between articulatory gestures and aerodynamic aspects of speech, such as oral pressure. On the other hand, his research focuses on the role that oral pressure has in characterizing the relative strength of a consonant. He also studies how oral pressure is involved in sound changes that affect strength (namely lenition and fortition). In a more general fashion, his research interests include: phonetic explanations for synchronic and diachronic sound change, relationship between articulatory and acoustic phonetics, experimental phonetics, physiology of speech, linguistic universals, typology, and also applied phonetics (second language acquisition).

Andrea Davis

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Eneida de Goes Leal

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Thomas Mainguy

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